WidowWidowers Get Togethers Community Group
This is a place where we can share our pictures and future plans to get together.
I was talking with a few on the chat and we thought it would nice to have a mini get together in IA. We were discussing maybe in september some time. Does anyone feel like they could make it. Catherine17 was going to check on hotels in the area. I believe Dubuque IA.
OR I would love to host a get together in Minnesota. Any suggestions are more than welcome.
Brenda
OR I would love to host a get together in Minnesota. Any suggestions are more than welcome.
Brenda
It is only a hop, skip and a jump and we will be there......I haven't checked for stops along the way yet, but don't worry my dear sister....I will get you there and back safely........
MJ
Can a newbie chime in?
Please?
These get-together's sound like fun - if you do an East coast one I would love to be included! (Do not quite understand all of the Flat Stan stuff - but I am willing to learn...he must be a heck of a piece of fiberboard! -- He is cardboard??....)
Also - I have a talent - I make a margarita that has made people groan with pleasure!
Cheers
Gale
The Flat Stanley Project was started in 1995 by Dale Hubert, a third grade schoolteacher in London, Ontario, Canada. It is meant to facilitate letter-writing by schoolchildren to each other as they document where Flat Stanley has accompanied them. Dale Hubert received the Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence in 2001 for the Flat Stanley Project.
A Flat Stanley mailed to Richmond, Virginia, sent as a visitor as part of the Flat Stanley project from a student in Atlanta, Georgia
The Project provides an opportunity for students to make connections with students of other member schools who have signed up with the project. Students begin by reading the book and becoming acquainted with the story. They create paper "Flat Stanleys" (representative drawings of the Stanley Lambchop character) and keep a journal for a few days, documenting the places and activities in which Flat Stanley is involved. Each student's Flat Stanley and its respective journal are mailed to other people who are asked to treat the figure as a visiting guest and add to his journal, then return them both after a period of time. The project has many similarities to the travelling gnome prank except, of course, for the Flat Stanley Project's focus on literacy.
Flat Stanley braving the weather in Miami Beach
Students may find it fun to plot Flat Stanley's travels on maps and share the contents of the journal. Often, a Flat Stanley returns with a photo or postcard from his visit. Some teachers prefer to use e-mail for its quicker travel time.
In 2005, more than 6,500 classes from 48 countries took part in the Flat Stanley Project.[citation needed]
The project was featured in a 2004 episode of the animated TV series King of the Hill, in which Nancy Gribble receives a Flat Stanley in the mail. Peggy Hill and Luanne Platter photograph it in a number of dangerous situations, resulting in the school's Flat Stanley Project being cancelled.
According to the February 26, 2009 broadcast of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Flat Stanley was on board US Airways Flight 1549 which landed safely in the Hudson River. He was carried to safety in the briefcase of his traveling companion.
In early 2010, Darren Haas, a huge Flat Stanley advocate and applications architect, approached Dale Hubert with the idea of turning the Flat Stanley Project concept into an app for the iPhone.
Also in 2010, fans of the baseball team the St. Louis Cardinals were asked (via the team website) to petition US President Barack Obama to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Baseball Hall of Famer Stan Musial. A "Flat Stan" downloadable cutout figure was made available to encourage Cardinals fans to take a photo with Musial's caricature and send them in as petitions.
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[edit]How it works
One of the many advantages of sending "flat" visitors is that they can visit friends by traveling in an envelope. Students' written work goes to other places by conventional mail and e-mail. While it might seem similar to a pen pal activity, it is much more. In a standard pen pal exchange, students rarely know how to begin or what to write about; with a Flat Stanley or another "flat" character (such as a female version, Flat Stella), it is as if the sender and the recipient have a mutual friend, and writing becomes easier and more creative for children.
[edit]Arranging exchanges
The best way of arranging exchanges is through the Flat Stanley Project Bulletin Board. There are always lots of teachers looking for exchange partners on the Bulletin Board.
The Flat Stanley Project has several blogs where teachers, parents and students can publish stories, describe local traditions and scenery, and post pictures. There are hundreds of Flat Stanley pictures in the blogs as well as in the archived Picture Gallery.
Recent digital technology made easy by using smartphones, videos of Flat Stanley projects are made for schoolchildren to share online.
Video of Flat Stanley
[edit]External links
The Flat Stanley Project.
Flat stanley in Jerusalem
Help please!!!
Hugs,
Vicki